Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement and Iain Morris have stretched Terry Gilliam's 1981 movie into an Apple TV+ series with positive results.
'Time Bandits,' premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+, adopts the premise and particulars of Terry Gilliam's wonderful 1981 comic fantasy adventure and stretches it, without breaking, into a television series. Created by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi and Iain Morris, it's likable, lively, funny and fun. Still, it's best to put Gilliam's film out of your mind, or at least not to mind the differences.
The colorful diversity of types makes them less plausible as anonymous low-level employees of the Supreme Being, but I didn't think much about it until I wrote that sentence. To cut to the 10-episode chase, Kevin is swept up in their draft as they try to evade the Supreme Being, who initially manifests as a giant three-faced head, but soon enough will be revealed as Waititi. Co-creator Clement plays Pure Evil, who also wants the map, and sends a demonic agent to get it.
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